SOWK 287 Final| 100 Questions | With Complete Solutions

Behavioral health can be problematic because it fails to recognize what? correct answer: It could place the onus on the individual to change rather than considering external environmental factors. Most mental health providers would hold that mental health includes all but which of the following? correct answer: vibrant creativity and unique perspectives Which of the following is true about homosexuality and mental illness? correct answer: The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) listed homosexuality as a mental illness until 1973. Deinstitutionalization of people with mental disorders in the United States ______. correct answer: resulted in the U.S. nursing home population doubling What reformer heightened awareness of the mistreatment of people with mental disorders in 1800s America, pushing for more humane approaches? correct answer: Dorothea Dix Diagnoses of which disorder among children increased 4,000% between 1984 and 2014, causing many to believe that it was perhaps simply becoming a more popular diagnosis among practitioners, rather than actually occurring more frequently? correct answer: bipolar disorder Alzheimer's and other conditions involving dementia and delirium are included in which DSM-5 category? correct answer: neurocognitive disorders In Wyatt v. Stickney (1971) and O'Connor v. Donaldson (1975), the Supreme Court ruled that ______. correct answer: a client could not be hospitalized against his or her will simply for having a mental illness and needing treatment; a more specific set of guidelines had to be met Licensed clinical social workers are directly responsible for ______. correct answer: assessing, diagnosing, and treating all forms of mental disorders Funding for Medicare comes from all but which of the following? correct answer: sales and property taxes Which of the following statements about depression in the elderly is true? correct answer: Families rarely realize that people who are experiencing other major illnesses, such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, Parkinson's disease, and stroke, are frequently depressed as well. Why are negative stereotype of aging difficult to combat? correct answer: Age stereotypes are often internalized long before they are even relevant to people. Which of the following statements about fear and death is false? correct answer: Americans' fear of death and dying does not appear to have an impact on governmental policy. ______ provides a pension upon retirement for nearly every American who pays taxes into the system correct answer: The Social Security Act of 1935 Which of the following does not reflect a typical Native American view or practice regarding old age and death? correct answer: Death comes first to those who are less pious and less respectful of life around them.